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A03778	Great Brittaines resurrection: or the Parliaments passing bell By vvay of psalmodie, against the tryumphing of the Papists, in their seuen psalmes. And in imitation of the song of the three nobles of Israel, deliuered out of the fierie ouen of Babell. By VVilliam Hubbard, Chaplaine to the Kings Maiestie, in his Highness Tower of London. Seene and allowed.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1606 (1606)	STC 13898.5; ESTC S118144	37,262	64

till God reueale further vnto them which moderation time hath bred in many is not profiting in wisedome and iudgement a part of our growing to the ripe age and stature of Iesus Christ that wherunto we are come wee may proceede by one rule euen to minde one thing which is necessarie Doe you stand in the gap in your pastorall sage wisedomes and zeale to turne away the Lords wrath which yet is not ceased blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye Nobles and Peeres of the Realme the pillers of our estate and flowers of the Kings Coronet Behold now the day of the Lord of Hostes was to bee vpon euery thing that was exalted vpon all the Cedars of Lebanon vpon all the Oakes of Bashan and vpon all the high mountaines and vpon all the hills that are lifted vp vpō euery high towne euery strong wall euen vpon all the strong men that are about the bed of Salomon all the valiant of Israel who handle the sword and are expert in warre and vpon euery one that hath his sword vpon his thigh for any feare these euen your selues the cruell instruments of Nabuchadnazzer of Rome would haue consumed as the three renowned rulers of the Prouinces Sidrach Misach and Abednego in one fierie Ouen heated to the seauenth degree in your habites roabes coates and shooes as they were as the Scripture noteth and yet the Infidel galles vnder Brennus reuerenced the faces and vestures of the Fathers of the Senate in the capitoll of heathen Rome Beholde the Lords great deliuerance ouer you his holy Angels among you so that no smell of fire vpon your garments nor a haire of your heads singed doe you therefore and your posteritie and all your retinue Blesse the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O You graue Iudges and Fathers of the Law and Sages of the Land whose doome was so neare without all course of iudgement and triall of Law which you afford to the meanest creature and most grieuous offender doe you put on Iustice as a roabe Let equity be a couering as a Crowne breake the power of the oppressour and let the innocent goe free that Iustice may not be as Wormewood nor iudgement as gall but truth may runne down as a mighty streame euery where Doe you blesse the Lord the chiefe Iudge of the world who hath deliuered you from so great sodaine a iudgment Blesse him I say in all your Courts in all your benches proceedings Assises and Sessions praise him and magnifie him for euer O You the learned and prudent Maisters of the Lawe and Chauncerie the Secretaries and Clarkes of estate attendants in this honourable place by your offices who were to bee in the same net of destruction now that your soule is escaped as a bird the net broken the fowlers taken and your soule deliuered Doe you tremble and serue this great God and King and your Country with all good care sound conscience as before the Court of conscience in heauen in greater degrees for if his wrath had beene kindled a little what could great and high place presence do good behold the thunder smiteth the tallest tops Doe you therefore feare this great GOD breake out into voyces and vowes of laud and thanksgiuing blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O You worthie Knights and Burgesses who represent the bodies of the seuerall Countries Shires of our Nation and were to be a short raunsome for a small Interim with your bodies for the bodies of the Countries who looked when their turne came to be deuoured also Bee you faithfull betweene them who commit their welfare vnto you and this God who though he be a consuming fire and your house was as a burnt sacrifice soking vpon the fire almost to the last night yet hee hath not burnt it nor touched our estate as brittle and combustible as the fierie bush in the Desart but gloriously shewed himselfe in the midst of you for your safetie as in the vision to Moses Wherefore put off your shooes as hee did lay aside all earthly treadings awry in loue of your selues your owne pelfe goe not with a splay foote to the Gospell of peace and if indeede you seeke the Lord with all your hearts in the propagation of the Gospell by a preaching Ministerie thorough the Land as I am perswaded very many doe then sticke not some of you to returne the impropriations in your owne power backe againe to the Church as some honourably haue done heretofore and others offered to doe the like in your very owne house of Parliament and some with their money hath purchased some of thē to the Church and were they not the auncient patrimonie of Christ Did not Queene Mary in her darke dayes and wayes giue example and by act of Parliament make restitution of the appropriations annexed to the Crowne It well becommeth the zealous this day some to stand forth as Zaccheus after so long detinue Seeing this day saluation is come vnto their whole and particular houses and they become the sonnes of Abraham all of them as Isaac saued from the knife by an angelicall hand to deliuer possession of the Lords inheritances some to offer liberally as Araunah the Iebusite did like a King as is recorded to the shame of Christians Some as Nehemiah to depart from their owne for some time to redeeme the Churches portion back again as he his seruants did forbeare the purchasing of lands for themselues to supply publique wants Others not sticke to abolish diminutiue rates and vnequall disproportionate compositions whereof peraduenture many haue stollen vpon the Church and to reduce the tythes to their primitiue vncorrupt kind or among you to take some effectuall way in the varietie of your high and exercised wisedomes for a liberal maintenance of a preaching Ministery without which the discourses of it are cloudes and claps of thunder without the sweete dewes and drops of early and later raine and indeede a rich sacrifice of those sorts vpon this returne of you all from the gulfe of such a death would be an vndeniable constat of your zeale and pietie to all posterities and an acceptable performance of a holy vow to him who hath spared you all taken nothing frō you And so in the name of God go on with all your courage zeale obedience and fidelitie to GOD and man blesse you the Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye eloquent and skilfull Sergeants and Counsailours at the Lawe the Professours and exercents in this facultie pleaders and agents and all the men of Lawe whosoeuer in these adiacent Courts together with all the Scribes Notaries and Protonotaries Atturnies and all other appendants and dependants in so great a Muster in your rankes and Companies that plaine and quiet men meruaile how there can be

of the Protestants euen the God of Paule for whose sake God spared two hundred seuentie and sixe in the same ship to praise him and magnifie him for euer O You stately buildings and Edifices of Antiquitie whose seates were set for iudgement whether all the heads of the tribes ascend and other nobles and elders of this Realme for common causes of olde together with the princely Oratories and Chappels and Churches of deuotion and for the inauguration and inuestiture of the Kings and Queenes of this Realme who haue long stoode in peace on your bases and beene vnmooueable in so many alterations of Princes Nations times and yet now one stone was not to be left vpon another if they might haue had their will Crying downe with it downe with it euen to the ground abhorring not the men onely but the place also as a leaporous house and vowing to make it waste as a wildernes doe you consider and bee not inanimate and altogether mute but as the creature that lifteth vp his head for the day of redemption spirited with a feeling of your preseruer that they which visite your monuments come to see your ornaments may go about you as of olde about Syon and tel her Towers marke well her bulwarks and consider her walls and see not a stone mooued or a piece of timber shaken GOD hath taken pleasure in the stones of your foundations and hath had pittie on the dust thereof as for your enemies hee hath trod downe their life in the earth and laid their honour in the dust Doe you stand and continue to tell posteritie as a stedfast and speaking pillar to admonish the members of that body all that come vnder your roofe hereafter there to intend him onely that deliuered them and not to tempt this iealous God by any sinister decree whose wrath had like to haue vomited vs vp a luke warme nation neither hot nor colde out of his mouth and who had his fanne in his hand to haue burnt vs vp a people not worthie to be beloued as chaffe in one day so that all may with teares feares accusing iudging our selues get vs to our God right humbly and learne heere aboue all places especially of estate with voices suffrages and decrees of holines iustice to blesse this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Ye auncient monuments and Tombes of the dead the Sepulchers of the famous founders of this common wealth the noble Kings Queenes and Worthies of this Realme whom many haue visited with ioy and honour whose bones and bodies and sacred memories haue rested in peace a long time notwithstanding the vprores of Kingdoms mutinies of people turmoiles of ciuill warres and mightie earthquakes and yet should now haue beene digged out of your honourable graues and haue had your parts rend vp with this blast as malefactors in a newe execution and dislodged out of your honourable houses of rest your corpes disturbed and your ashes scattered by this Plutoes and hellish confusion of Babell and terrible earthquake ploughing vp all before them and making furrowes in the hard rockes doe you therefore lift vp your heads and rise vp as the bodies of the righteous out of the dust at the death of Christ and blesse this Lord who letteth you rest the rest of your time euen a little time expecting a ioyfull and speedie resurrection with all the Saints of God and all your people succeeding you together to praise him and magnifie him for euer O Yee Rolles and Charters and auncient Registers and Records of Courts of estate containing the decrees of the wisedome of the auncient and the rules of iustice and equitie betweene man and man which all should haue bene shriuelled together in the fire of the Lords iealousie like as at the dissolution of the whole world when the elements melt with heate and heauen it selfe vanisheth as a scrowle and the workes of the earth are to be burnt with fire doe you flourish and reuiue out of your places not to bee intanglements and incumbrances or tedious tarriers with dilatorie pleas respiting the cause or respecting the face of any that all men that haue to doe with you may more blesse God that loueth peace and equitie and is a God of order and not of confusion that there remaines euidence of truth and that the land markes are not remooued as the Diuell would haue had it and therefore bee the more inflamed in all honest and true dealing to praise God and magnifie him for euer O You Chariots of the mightie and Coaches and Caroches of the great men of our state together with the white Steeds and Palfreyes that runne as the horses of Iehu who had perished in the same deluge of fierie destruction or been stoned or pressed to death with your maisters and owners A horse had beene a vaine thing to saue a man the glory of outlandish Coursers the neighings of horses and the pride of the ratling of the wheele had vanished doe you who as creatures are subiect to vanitie vntill the reuelation of the sonnes of God be and your deliuerance from the bondage of corruption acknowledge in your degrees that the iudgement of the Lord is like a great deepe hee saueth man and beast Let man and beast therefore blesse this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou glorious and triple Court of great Brittaine and all you braue gallants of each of the princely housholds you high and tender Ladies honourable virgins see how God pittied your sex and softnes of education and all ye seruants of so great a Monarch Queene and Prince with all their traine and retinue Consider the danger to be past before you heard of it where had beene all your beautie honour grace approachment iolitie and brauerie if this plot had taken effect doe you all learne to loue the Courts of the Lords house counting one day better spent there then any in the tabernacles and chambers of vngodlines wish there rather to peepe in at the doore then otherwise to haue free ingresse into the priuie chambers of Princes Alas what could the bed chambers the withdrawing chambers and priuie chambers of Princes haue auailed you when you should haue runne from chamber to chamber to hide you your selues and yet no chamber could haue hid you when the foundations of the earth had beene discouered when as no barre could haue shut out destruction death would haue scaled euery wall and climde in at euery windowe Iudgement had beene laide to the rule and righteousnes to the ballance this thick haile pel mel would haue swept away euery vaine confidence and this breaking in of a fierie sea had ouerflowed the secret places euery couenant with death should haue beene disanulled the agreement with hell could not stand this scourge should haue runne ouer and haue passed thorough all should

of Dagon fell downe vpō Philistines 3000 the buildings of foure whole Cities of Sodome oppressed their owners one wall falleth vpon 27000. of Syrians Ierichoes walls come tumbling down but Englands are spared Thou art let goe as a scape got or liuing sparrow from the death in hand thou hast not lost not one man in all thy Tribes do thou therfore exalt set vp and blesse this thy God that loueth thee deerely by prolonging thy peace in thy borders and preuenting this crying and complaining in thy streetes else haddest thou beene yea and shalt be a wofull spectacle of miserie an incōparable example of calamitie to all the world should not thy times haue beene as in the dayes of Noah some taken eating some drinking some in marrying and knew nothing till the flood of vengeance came as in the dayes of Lot some building some planting some buying some selling and the fire disturbed all their works as in the day of Ierusalem some taken flying of two in the field one hit the other scaping some in the house not suffered to come downe others abroad not suffered to set any thing out of the house some taken in the Inne as Moses some neere the gardens as Balaam some in the tents of whoring as Zimri and Cost some as Abimelech hauing come neere the dore to haue his braine brokē with a stone some taken lying in receiuing bribes as Gehezi some robbing the Church as Ananias and Zaphira some walking in the Tarasses as Nebuchadnezar some drinking with cōcubines as Baltazar c. Lord how many hearts had beene discouered how many hypocrites dismaked faint and fraile men laid open some weak would haue proued strong some strong would haue proued weake the reputed faithfull might haue been vnfaithfull the trustie might haue become treacherous men taken to be quiet might haue beene outragious many that make faire weather would haue been glad of this storme they that seeme content with their owne would haue taken part in the common spoile how many priuate quarrels would haue beene reuenged vnder publike visors how many that seeme Protestants would haue appeared Papists how many wise would haue proued foolish and at their wits end how would the base haue presumed against the honourable the young against the aged who could haue beene sure of life or goods or wife or childe one houre what house not rifled what virgine not rauished what wife not defloured euery Towne and Country should haue beene filled with woe and lamentation and astonishment Winter houses Sommer houses had beene demolished the great houses smitten with breaches the little with chests as Amos speaketh It should haue beene a day of darknes and blacknes none like it from the beginning neither any more such to the yeares of many generations the land before it as the garden of Eden after it a deuouring wildernes And surely it parliament shall take all course for safety that possibly the highest reach and extent of mans wisedome can compasse yet if we be not reconciled to GOD and returne with all our heart It we be not zealous to amend loe hee standeth still at the doore and knocketh our safety is no safety and our reso●e is but a repriuall to a greater assises 〈◊〉 England therefore say vnto her God heretofore I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the care but nowe mine eye seeth neerer then euer therefore I abhorre my selfe in dust and ushes Let the enemie neuer haue his hope that the iniquitie of England is fulfild Let England seeing shee is new borne be a new creature Let England say the mercie of God to it indureth for euer and that her deliuerance surpasseth all the deliuerances of Gods first borne Israel let her proclaime to all people Come and see and heare what GOD hath done for me and my children helpe me all ye nations and ioyne with me to blesse this Lord to praise him to magnifie him for euer O You the right honorable Commissioners and other the worshipfull imployed in examining this triane and in digging vp this hidden graue like the Troian horse among the Gentiles of all villany you see ken further in this sed of mischiefe then any other eye you see the works of the Lord and his wonders in these deep deuices further then is fit for euery one to knowe and which time will more reueale and make bare and naked Heauen is high earth is deepe and the heart of the King who can finde out you see the dungeon of trayterous harts and haue pierced into the bottomlesse hell of Popish and Iesuiticall practise by their owne bookes writings and confessions you see the labyrinth of their windings turnings and all the false dores of equiuocating soules more intricate then their hiding chambers in their couerts and dens and secret lurking places you see the power of the Lord to confound them whilst we imagined no ill his wisedom to let them run on till they should be out of breath like a good Chirurgion not to launce the wound til it grew to a head and the botch ripe to breake with too much bily matter you see the iustice of the Lord who hath made himselfe knowne by executing iudgement they are sunken downe in the pit that they made in the net that they hid is their foot taken the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne hands Higgaiō Selah you see the mercy of God triumphing ouer all his works arguing and disputing in his loue concerning vs How shall I deliuer thee vp O little England How shal I deliuer thee O great Brittaine how shall I make thee as Admal how shall I set thee as Zeboim mine hart is turned within me my repentings are rolled together I will not execute the fiercenes of any wrath I will not returne to destroy I am God and not man the holy one in the midst of thee behold I would haue fined thee but not as siluer yea I haue saued thee out of this fierie furnace of affliction for mine owne sake for mine owne sake haue I done it for my names sake haue I deferred my wrath for my praise haue I refrained from thee that I cut thee not off you therefore that see more as the cunning eye in pictures the skillfull eare in musicke discerneth more then the vulgar sort you that see the length the bredth the depth the heigth at the dimēsions of Gods works here aboue others rise vp higher in your spirits by their subtilty right honourable be more and more wise as serpents for the state and to preserue honourable plainenes in the simplicity of Doues in holie conuersation for your soules health and for blessing of your pollicy so blesse you this Lord praise him and magnifie him for euer O Thou noble Lord that high Montegle of honorable discent and auncient renowned house predestinate aboue all other